What You Need To Know Today: Palin is ready for war and Obama and Clinton are ready for lunch

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY Good morning! For the end of our week, Sarah Palin sat down to an interview with ABC's Charlie Gibson and said a bunch of things people will be talking about for the entire weekend. That, plus more Bill Clinton, Joe Biden's Sarah stand-in and polls you should know is all after the jump!

Good morning! For the end of our week, Sarah Palin sat down to an interview with ABC's Charlie Gibson and said a bunch of things people will be talking about for the entire weekend. That, plus more Bill Clinton, Joe Biden's Sarah stand-in and polls you should know is all after the jump!

Sarah Palin's Interview With all the focus the McCain campaign has put on Barack Obama's lack of foreign policy experience, it's not surprising that Sarah Palin's long-awaited first interview focused so heavily on foreign policy. What is surprising is that she threatened to go to war with Russia. This is 2008, not 1980, right?

Name-Calling Isn't Nice Former Republican Senator Lincoln Chafee, the left's answer to former Democrat Joe Lieberman, came out of obscurity this week to call Sarah Palin a "cocky wacko." At least he didn't call her "sweetie," I guess.

Bill Clinton Talks To Obama With Obama and McCain even in the polls, Obama made a pilgrimage to have lunch with the most recent Democrat to win the American Presidency. No one thinks they talked about Hillary's suits.

The New Sarah Palin? In preparation for the vice presidential debate, Joe Biden's gone and gotten himself a Palin stand-in: Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm. I've met Governor Granholm, and she is definitely no Sarah Palin (and that's probably a good thing).

Obama Polls In an effort likely to be attributed to the McCain camp, a group called the Opinion Access Corporation is calling voters with "polls" designed not to figure out your positions but to change them. The "pollsters" accuse Obama of everything from letting convicted sex offenders loose on your kids to being a direct risk to national security. McCain's people will deny it, the pollsters themselves will keep mum about who hired them, and they willl likely have at least some of their intended effect.

Have you ever been push-polled? Did it work? And what did you think of the Palin interview?